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Frigid frozen Minnesota |
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Chip on his shoulder |
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Sick sleeping on a pissy sofa |
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Unwanted visitor in a different culture |
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Missing home and he can't go their civil waring |
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Listen solider forget getting over |
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Prison state around the corner homless is even closer |
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Kids with similar skin color still don't even wantcha |
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Spit and insult ya cause they have been here longer |
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He leave his crib he guaranteed the pigs approach ya |
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Where ya going where ya from any weapons on ya |
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Your family is stressed out your getting older |
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You don't live the way they did back in Somalia |
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It's extra difficult to be a daughter |
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Trying to keep it modest with sinners all around you |
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Where the wrong garment your parents get an ulcer |
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If you wrap it up the other children picking on you |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |
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Holidays and you know what the business is |
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You get two birthdays and two Christmases |
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Older you get you resent how sick it is |
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They're trying to cover their guilt with the gifts they give |
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Bounce from his house to her house |
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Too bad that marriage didn't work out |
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Now you don't have a your house |
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Daddy fighting mommy they both tell me they love me |
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If I get to close to one the other one start acting funny |
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Ma went and had a baby with a different dad |
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You act happy to please em but you are really sad |
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Seeing first hand that family that you will never have |
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Plus you ain't no real brother you're just a half |
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Got to pick up the pieces and move on |
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Bed time stories and greet them on the phone |
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Live in two houses and neither one is home |
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Wishing you were grown have the freedom to get gone |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |
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Daddy was a preacher momma was a Sunday school teacher |
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Big brother football squad leader |
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Now far be it for you to disappoint or displease them |
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Your just being what you feel you see in |
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That mirror every time you peer in |
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Swallow the tears inside that empty feeling |
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Her boy terrified to let the world in |
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He has girlfriends but doesn't want a girlfriend |
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He retreats inside himself |
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Where he lives life itself in secret |
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Daddy says people go to hell for being |
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What he is and he certainly believes them |
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Cause there ain't no flame that can blaze enough |
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To trump being hated for the way you love |
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And cry yourself to sleep and hate waking up |
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It's a cold world y'all shame on us |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |
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Live in two worlds with your eyes closed |
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Tip toeing on a tight rope |
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Holding on for survival |
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Nobody to blame this is just how it goes |